RETRO: MARITIMES, MONDAY, APRIL 16, 1979

[McCorryKL]

Source: TV Guide Maritime Edition (April 14-20); John S. Ragin and Jack Klugman on the cover

Note: All times listed are in Atlantic.

CKCW Channel 2 Moncton, Channel 8 Charlottetown / CJCB Channel 4 Sydney / CJCH Channel 5 Halifax / CKLT Channel 9 Saint John (CTV)
7:00 University of the Air
7:30 Romper Room
8:00 Canada A.M.
10:00 Atlantic A.M.
10:30 What's Cooking?
11:00 Mad Dash
11:30 Definition
12:00 Battle of the Planets
12:30 It's Your Move
1:00 Bionic Woman
2:00 Joyce Davidson
2:30 Alan Hamel
3:30 Another World
5:00 Beverly Hillbillies
5:30 ATV News
6:30 Price is Right
7:30 Little House On the Prairie
8:30 Billy
9:00 Salvage 1
10:00 Kaz
11:00 What's My Line?
11:30 Downright Disco
12:00 CTV News
12:20 ATV Nightline

CBHT Channel 3 Halifax / CBIT Channel 5 Sydney / CBCT Channel 13 Charlottetown (CBC)
9:35 News
9:45 Friendly Giant
10:00 Camera 12
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Hi! Noon
12:30 Search For Tomorrow
1:00 Today- From the Atlantic
2:00 Edge of Night
2:30 Take 30
3:00 Bob McLean
4:00 Sherlock Holmes (BW)
4:30 Stationary Ark
5:00 Partridge Family
5:30 All in the Family
6:00 News
7:00 Mary Tyler Moore
7:30 Land and Sea
8:00 The Entertainers
9:00 To Be Announced
12:00 CBC News
12:20 Film
12:25 Night Report (CBHT, CBIT only)
12:25 News (CBCT only)
12:45 Body in Question

CJBR Channel 3 Rimouski, Quebec (SRC)
10:00 En mouvement
10:15 Les Oraliens
10:30 Passe-Partout
11:00 Une fenetre
11:15 Virginie
11:30 Magazine
12:00 Les Trouvailles de Clemence
12:30 Harold Lloyd
1:00 Les Travaux
1:30 Les Coqueluches
2:30 Telejournal
2:35 Femme d'Aujourd'hui
3:30 D'Amour et d'eau fraiche
4:30 Pierrot
4:45 Chiboukis
5:00 Bobino
5:30 Gutenburg
6:00 L'heure de pointe
7:00 Nouvelles
8:00 Cosmos: 1999 - "Deformation spatiale"
9:00 A Communiquer
11:30 Telejournal
12:20 Aux Frontieres du Possible
12:50 Jason King - "Simple comme bonjour"

CHSJ (CBAT) Channel 4 Saint John / Channel 6 Newcastle / Channel 7 Moncton (CBC)
7:30 100 Huntley Street
9:00 Ed Allen Time
9:30 Canadian Schools
10:30 Mr. Dressup
11:00 Sesame Street
12:00 Gong Show
12:25 News
12:30 Merv Griffin
1:30 Match Game
2:00 Edge of Night
2:30 Take 30
3:00 Bob McLean
4:00 Friends and Neighbours
4:30 Catch Up
5:00 Linus
5:30 Flipper
6:00 News
6:30 Family Feud
7:00 Hawaii Five-O
9:00 To Be Announced
12:00 CBC News
12:20 News

CBAFT Channel 11 Moncton (SRC)
10:00 En mouvement
10:15 Les Oraliens
10:30 Passe-Partout
11:00 Une fenetre
11:15 Virginie
11:30 Magazine
12:00 Les Trouvailles de Clemence
12:30 Harold Lloyd
1:00 Les Travaux
1:30 Les Coqueluches
2:30 Telejournal
2:35 Femme d'Aujourd'hui
3:30 D'Amour et d'eau fraiche
4:30 Pierrot
4:45 Chiboukis
5:00 Bobino
5:30 Gutenburg
6:00 Coup d'oeil
6:30 Nouvelles
7:30 Acadiana
8:00 Cosmos: 1999 - "Deformation spatiale"
9:00 A Communiquer
11:30 Telejournal
12:20 Aux Frontieres du Possible
12:50 Jason King - "Simple comme bonjour"

WLBZ Channel 2 Bangor (NBC)
7:25 Farm Program
7:30 News
8:00 Today
10:00 Donahue
11:00 Card Sharks
11:30 All-Star Secrets
12:00 High Rollers
12:30 Wheel of Fortune
1:00 Password Plus
1:30 Hollywood Squares
2:00 Days of Our Lives
3:00 Doctors
3:30 Another World
5:00 Great Money Movie - Pillow Talk (1959; Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall)
7:00 News
7:30 NBC News
8:00 Newlywed Game
8:30 Celebrity Charades
9:00 Little House On the Prairie
10:00 Movie - Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975; Jack Lemmon, Anne Bancroft, Gene Saks)
12:00 News
12:30 Johnny Carson
2:00 Tomorrow

WVII Channel 7 Bangor (ABC)
7:00 PTL Club
8:00 Good Morning America
10:00 Dinah!
11:00 PTL Club
12:00 Baseball - Boston @ Cleveland
2:30 Laverne and Shirley
3:00 One Life to Live
4:00 General Hospital
5:00 Edge of Night
5:30 Archie
6:00 Flintstones
6:30 Gilligan's Island
7:00 News
7:30 ABC News
8:00 Carol Burnett
8:30 Gong Show
9:00 Salvage 1
10:00 How the West Was Won
12:00 Cheap Show
12:30 Movie - Lawrence of Arabia (first part) (1962; Peter O'Toole, Anthony Quinn, Alec Guinness)

WAGM Channel 8 Presque Isle (CBS, NBC, ABC)
7:00 PTL Club
8:00 Today
10:00 Captain Kangaroo
11:00 All in the Family
11:30 Price is Right
12:30 Love of Life
1:00 Young and the Restless
1:30 Search For Tomorrow
2:00 Not For Women Only
2:30 As the World Turns
3:30 Guiding Light
4:00 All in the Family
4:30 M*A*S*H
5:00 Match Game
5:30 Mike Douglas
7:00 News
7:30 CBS News
8:00 To Tell the Truth
8:30 Tic Tac Dough
9:00 Little House On the Prairie
10:00 Perry Como
11:00 Lou Grant
12:00 News
12:30 The Rockford Files - "New Life, Old Dragons"

WMEM Channel 10 Presque Isle / WMED Channel 13 Calais (PBS)
2:45 Magic Carpet
3:00 Blue Umbrella
3:15 Into Rhythm
3:30 Music
4:00 Project Stretch
4:30 Parent Effectiveness
5:00 Sesame Street
6:00 Mister Rogers
6:30 Electric Company
7:00 Growing Years
7:30 Over Easy
8:00 MacNeil-Lehrer Report
8:30 Woods and Waters
9:00 Bill Moyers
10:00 Academy Leaders
11:00 Boston Marathon 1979
12:00 Dick Cavett
12:30 ABC News

 

[mjlarochelle]

In 1979, the three main ATV stations (Halifax, Sydney, Moncton) had their own locally produced versions of ATV News, and as indicated here it was a full hour long. By 1981 the newscasts were amalgamated into a single regional report from Halifax, and it was reduced to a half hour.

 

[Gregg]

The schedules for the SRC stations in Moncton and Rimouski are exactly the same, even though they're in different time zones. Even though the Rimoutski station is privately owned (no CB-- call letters), it still follows the SRC schedule exactly. Maybe the station does a local insert in the 6pm and 11:30 news. SRC viewers in the Maritimes have to watch the Eastern time zone feed. The SRC doesn't make allowances in 1979 for Atlantic time, although the CBC does.

The CBC didn't know what it was going to run on this Monday evening at 9. But it knew it would take three hours, pushing the late news to midnight. The only American shows on the schedule of CBC-owned stations that day were Search for Tomorrow, Edge of Night, Partidge Family, All in The Family and Mary Tyler Moore. Privately-owned CBC stations ran the Gong Show (ugh!), Merv Griffin, Match Game, Edge of Night, Flipper, Family Fued and Hawaii Five-0. There's also a show called Linus. Not sure if that's Linus from the Peanuts comics, which might make it American. I don't count Sesame Street because there was a good deal of Canadian content in the CBC version of that show.


Gregg
[email protected]

 

[McCorryKL]

The schedules for the SRC stations in Moncton and Rimouski are exactly the same, even though they're in different time zones. Even though the Rimoutski station is privately owned (no CB-- call letters), it still follows the SRC schedule exactly.

Not always, though. The 6 to 8 P.M. slots on the weekdays tended to differ, and as will be the case from fall of '79 onward, CBAFT preferring to air its local news programming at 6 or 6:30 while the Quebec stations still aired dramatic or documentary programming (Femme Bionique, Cosmos: 1999, La Vie Secrete des Animaux, Incroyable Hulk, etc.).

The CBC didn't know what it was going to run on this Monday evening at 9. But it knew it would take three hours, pushing the late news to midnight.

It was probably hockey playoffs. TV Guide tended not to receive the exact teams to be shown until well after printing.

The only American shows on the schedule of CBC-owned stations that day were Search for Tomorrow, Edge of Night, Partidge Family, All in The Family and Mary Tyler Moore.

About normal for the time. Of course, a normal prime-time line-up would include a further serving of American programs.

Privately-owned CBC stations ran the Gong Show (ugh!), Merv Griffin, Match Game, Edge of Night, Flipper, Family Fued and Hawaii Five-0.

CHSJ tended to get its Hawaii Five-O off of CBHT, videotaping it to air at a time of CHSJ's choosing, and Edge of Night directly off the CBC feed (CBHT again, probably).

There's also a show called Linus. Not sure if that's Linus from the Peanuts comics, which might make it American.

Linus the Lionhearted, with Sugar Bear, Lovable Truly, and So Hi the Chinese Boy. Definitely American.

 

[McCorryKL]

I think CJBR was a transmitter of an SRC-owned station in Matane, or was it vice versa?

 

[azumanga]

I think CJBR was a transmitter of an SRC-owned station in Matane, or was it vice versa?

CJBR was, and still is, an SRC-owned station, but in Rimouski. CBGAT, a former station of its own but later a repeater of CJBR, is the SRC outlet for Matane.

 

[Bluenoser]

Privately-owned CBC stations ran the Gong Show (ugh!), Merv Griffin, Match Game, Edge of Night, Flipper, Family Fued and Hawaii Five-0.

CHSJ tended to get its Hawaii Five-O off of CBHT, videotaping it to air at a time of CHSJ's choosing, and Edge of Night directly off the CBC feed (CBHT again, probably).

CHSJ used to air a program slide with an announcement along the lines of "The following program has been recorded from an earlier network broadcast for presentation at this time. At one point, they ran Sesame Street at 9am on a 1-day delay, choosing to run other delayed CBC programs in the 11-noon slot.

 

[McCorryKL]

Privately-owned CBC stations ran the Gong Show (ugh!), Merv Griffin, Match Game, Edge of Night, Flipper, Family Fued and Hawaii Five-0.

CHSJ tended to get its Hawaii Five-O off of CBHT, videotaping it to air at a time of CHSJ's choosing, and Edge of Night directly off the CBC feed (CBHT again, probably).

CHSJ used to air a program slide with an announcement along the lines of "The following program has been recorded from an earlier network broadcast for presentation at this time. At one point, they ran Sesame Street at 9am on a 1-day delay, choosing to run other delayed CBC programs in the 11-noon slot.

Sometimes CHSJ did that. Other times not. CHSJ would air Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour on a 1-week-delay from the CBC and tout it as a CHSJ program, no mention of CBC. Much like was done with the live CBC broadcast of Walt Disney, which CHSJ would say is brought to the viewers by Irving Oil. It was easier for CHSJ to insert its own commercials over the network ones when a show was videotaped and aired sometime later, than it was to insert commercials live in CBC breaks. Of course, this wouldn't have applied to Sesame Street as there were no commercials in that.

 

[Bluenoser]

CHSJ used to air a program slide with an announcement along the lines of "The following program has been recorded from an earlier network broadcast for presentation at this time. At one point, they ran Sesame Street at 9am on a 1-day delay, choosing to run other delayed CBC programs in the 11-noon slot.

Sometimes CHSJ did that. Other times not. CHSJ would air Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour on a 1-week-delay from the CBC and tout it as a CHSJ program, no mention of CBC. Much like was done with the live CBC broadcast of Walt Disney, which CHSJ would say is brought to the viewers by Irving Oil. It was easier for CHSJ to insert its own commercials over the network ones when a show was videotaped and aired sometime later, than it was to insert commercials live in CBC breaks. Of course, this wouldn't have applied to Sesame Street as there were no commercials in that.
[/quote]

And IIRC, didn't Leslie Nielsen voice ads for Irving at one time? I seem to remember an Irving ad during Disney that was promoting their gas, and I swear that looking back, it was Nielsen vocing it

 

[McCorryKL]

It could well have been Leslie Nielsen. He's been by this way a number of times. Are you sure it wasn't Don Armstrong, who, along with Ann Ramey, was the voice of CHSJ?

 

[Bluenoser]

It could well have been Leslie Nielsen. He's been by this way a number of times. Are you sure it wasn't Don Armstrong, who, along with Ann Ramey, was the voice of CHSJ?

Pretty certain...I remember what Don sounds like, pretty certain it wasn't him. And didn't Grace Craft also do some VO work as well?

 

[mjlarochelle]

I think CJBR was a transmitter of an SRC-owned station in Matane, or was it vice versa?

CJBR was, and still is, an SRC-owned station, but in Rimouski. CBGAT, a former station of its own but later a repeater of CJBR, is the SRC outlet for Matane.

CJBR at the time has been recently acquired by Radio-Canada from Telemedia.

 

[McCorryKL]

It could well have been Leslie Nielsen. He's been by this way a number of times. Are you sure it wasn't Don Armstrong, who, along with Ann Ramey, was the voice of CHSJ?

Pretty certain...I remember what Don sounds like, pretty certain it wasn't him. And didn't Grace Craft also do some VO work as well?

Don't think I'm familiar with her. It's possible. Always will remember Don Armstrong, "... on C-e-e-e-e-HSJ-a-a-a-a-y-T-V-e-e."

 

[Bluenoser]

It could well have been Leslie Nielsen. He's been by this way a number of times. Are you sure it wasn't Don Armstrong, who, along with Ann Ramey, was the voice of CHSJ?

Pretty certain...I remember what Don sounds like, pretty certain it wasn't him. And didn't Grace Craft also do some VO work as well?

Don't think I'm familiar with her. It's possible. Always will remember Don Armstrong, "... on C-e-e-e-e-HSJ-a-a-a-a-y-T-V-e-e."

And speaking of Don ...
http://www2.tv-ark.org.uk/International/canada/cbc_local.html

This page features one of the last versions of the CHSJ-TV sign-on, including 2 missing sets of calls and a bung-up of the community name hosting the station's oldest relay ;D-our man Don does the VO. Look under CBAT-TV New Brunswick. Also look for some old-skool ATV under the CTV Local Affiliates Section as well.